Photoshop for cheap: the good and bad alternatives

I have often written about the latter-day wave risovalok, mushrooming recently on the Mac with the speed of rabbits (and more than once recalled them, the benefit-to-date topic!), But in the meantime comrades lukas Mathis and jon Whipple wrote a fairly detailed comparative review of popular image editors: Pixelmator (so far without him), Acorn, DrawIt and Iris.

From myself would like to add that, unlike Lucas, I do not think Pixelmator worthy substitute for Photoshop to work with small graphics. First of all because of the scaling algorithm used by the program by increasing the image (here Nearest neighbor would have been much more suitable due to the lack of "gruel") edit: as a result of communication with the developers found that this is still a bug, not a feature, and a bunch of small glitches like getting "broken" images as a result of operations copy-paste.

I can well believe that the developers are trying to do everything as best as possible, but when you look at the next "Photoshop killer" I'm more inclined to purchase the latest version of Photoshop Elements :)